Our days are full and our learning is unmeasured and immeasurable.
photo by CassKotrba
Positive is not being cynical and not being pessimistic and not taking pride in being dark and pissy.Yesterday I added it to my newish page on Positivity. It is the least positive thing on that page. 🙂
My kids grew up being able to do a lot more things than other kids they knew because their parents allowed for it to be so. We didn't have to, we chose to do that because we saw the benefit in doing that.
The main idea is about seeing everything we do as a choice.
What locks people in "have to" thinking is they close the doors of choices they will not for various reasons take. They often end up with only one door open and it feels like they have to take it. And they feel trapped.
Harmony makes many things easier. When there is disharmony, everyone is affected. When there is harmony, everyone is affected, too.
My strongly held belief about most things is that no one knows for sure, knowledge grows and changes, but that stress and fear are always harmful.
How do we as parents show that we respect our children, that we are parenting respectfully? One big way is by genuinely listening to them. One way is by being honest with them about our own feelings, and telling the truth about events, or unexaggerated truthful reasons about why things can or cannot occur.
Contented parents are more useful to children and their learning and living than are unhappy parents reciting slogans or rhetoric. |